George Greeley

George Greeley was a graduate from the Juilliard College of Music who, instead of aim for a profession within the concert hall, dedicated his abilities to elevating the noises of popular music. The Rhode Island-born pianist (and afterwards orchestra head) caused such numbers as Tommy Dorsey, Glen Grey, Abe Lyman, and Kay Kyser through the big-band period, and was also incredibly occupied on radio (and later on tv) from the finish from the ’30s thru the middle-’50s. He consequently went to work with Columbia Pictures within the soundtrack division, providing mainly uncredited incidental music for a couple dozen films. He was also among the initial artists authorized to the Warner Bros. Information label upon its founding in the past due ’50s, offering that company using the same elegant instrumental pop noises that Billy Vaughan taken to Dot Information and Percy Trust taken to Columbia Information. His most certainly long lasting contribution to well-known culture, nevertheless, may attended in the first ’60s when Greeley made up the name theme to the tv screen series THE BEST Martian, starring Ray Walston and Expenses Bixby — that goofy however decidedly if subtly spaced-out little bit of music (which actually had room to get a theremin-type audio) offers lingered for 40 years and keeping track of in the recollections of people who’ve scarcely noticed the series in every of that period.